Hello good list,

As I finish up my last semester of library and archives classes, I have been asked by a friend if I would consider taking a part time job to go through a storage unit and inventory a collection of space memorabilia.  I have many questions for the collector, but for now I am trying to envision the best approach. 

This is a collection that has been started over 40 years ago, and may or not not be original.  So, if they want to pay me to sort it all out and inventory it, in case they find a museum that would want it, should I begin with Excel or Access?  Or perhaps an open source database?  I do not have Past Perfect and am not sure that every museum uses that particular database.  

I am thinking just a way of letting them access the collection and knowing what is there, not archival work or finding aids at this point.

Is that what some of you would do?

Thanks for your ideas, they are so helpful.


Julie Carmen
Student of Emporia State University's SLIM Program
(School of Library and Information Management)
Longmont, Colorado
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